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* RemovingTheCrucialTeammate: Done [[RuleOfThree three times]]:
** First, Marinette's classmates turn their backs upon her ''en masse'', unaware that this supposedly KarmicShunning is actually ensuring that she will never use any of her connections to help them out the way they clearly expect from ''Lila''.
** Lila convinces Nathaniel to break off his partnership with Marc by claiming the other boy wasn't a good enough artist to illustrate their comic and was "holding him back". It turns out that Marc is skilled enough that Creator/TomKing is surprised nobody was working with him already.
** Finally, Lila gets Kitty Section to kick Luka out, infuriating Marinette, who ensures his solo career promptly takes off without them.

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* AllForNothing: Once Lila is [[LiarRevealed finally exposed]], the whole class realizes that they effectively ruined their friendship with Marinette for no real reason at all. Everything they ''thought'' they stood to gain from siding with Lila were things ''Marinette'' could have given them instead.



* CrossingTheBurntBridge: Notably {{Averted|Trope}}, aside from referring to the trope in its title. Nobody attempts to repair their broken bond with Marinette, even after seeing everything they've missed out on... mainly because they're banking all their hopes on ''Lila'' making good on her promises.



* FairWeatherFriend: Marinette's class proves to be these. They drop her, ostensibly because they believe Lila's claims of bullying, but really because they want to exploit Lila's alleged celebrity connections.

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* FairWeatherFriend: Marinette's class proves to be make up of these. They all drop her, ostensibly because they believe Lila's claims of bullying, but really because they want to exploit Lila's alleged celebrity connections.

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* IronicEcho: Lila manipulated Nathaniel into breaking off his partnership with Marc by claiming he was "holding [Nathaniel] back". Marinette throws that same sentiment back into his face when informing him of Marc's new internship:
-->'''Marinette:''' Tom King even said that he was surprised no one had snatched him up yet; that he expected a line of comic book writers following Marc around. He couldn't believe it when I told him that Marc was just dropped for not being a good enough artist. ''(smiling)'' It's fine though. Marc doesn't have anyone or anything holding him back now. He'll work with real DC comic writers now; real professionals.

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Lila manipulated Nathaniel into breaking off his partnership with Marc by claiming he was "holding [Nathaniel] back". Marinette throws that same sentiment back into his face when informing him of Marc's new internship:
-->'''Marinette:''' --->'''Marinette:''' Tom King even said that he was surprised no one had snatched him up yet; that he expected a line of comic book writers following Marc around. He couldn't believe it when I told him that Marc was just dropped for not being a good enough artist. ''(smiling)'' It's fine though. Marc doesn't have anyone or anything holding him back now. He'll work with real DC comic writers now; real professionals.professionals.
** She says much the same thing when Lila repeats the trick with Kitty Section, wishing them luck finding a new singer and that she "Heard you said the last one was holding you back. That he needed to grow up."


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* SpannerInTheWorks: Jagged Stone unintentionally upends Marinette's plans for a big reveal at the end of the school year when he storms in to complain about other celebrities trying to poach ''his'' designer. This gives Aurore a chance to ask him about Lila's claims of saving his cat from being run over by a plane, causing him to go on a rant while Penny reveals that he's allergic.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: By the time Jagged Stone drops in during study hall, the other students are so accustomed to celebrities showing up looking for Marinette that they're barely fazed.
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* DramaticIrony: Throughout the whole story, Marinette's classmates bolster their spirits by reminding each other of Lila's connections and all the promises she's made, reassuring themselves that everything Lila has planned will be ''so'' much better than anything Marinette could have arranged for them. The reader naturally knows that none of these opportunities will ever materialize.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Near the end of the story, Lila convinces Juleka and the rest of Kitty Section to kick Luka out of their band. Marinette takes this as evidence that none of her classmates have gotten the ''point'' of all her demonstrations: that they should value their friendships more.


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* IronicEcho: Lila manipulated Nathaniel into breaking off his partnership with Marc by claiming he was "holding [Nathaniel] back". Marinette throws that same sentiment back into his face when informing him of Marc's new internship:
-->'''Marinette:''' Tom King even said that he was surprised no one had snatched him up yet; that he expected a line of comic book writers following Marc around. He couldn't believe it when I told him that Marc was just dropped for not being a good enough artist. ''(smiling)'' It's fine though. Marc doesn't have anyone or anything holding him back now. He'll work with real DC comic writers now; real professionals.


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* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Tony Stark makes a point of asking Marinette which one of her classmates is "the genius who thought a napkin could take out his eyes while he was wearing glasses?", causing Max to blush.


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* ShippingTorpedo: Lila acted as one by convincing Nathaniel to break off his partnership with Marc, claiming that the other boy wasn't a good enough artist and was holding him back. Marinette makes a point to look him straight in the eyes while informing him of Marc's new internship.
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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Alya gets a moment of this while reacting to Lois' visit:
-->'''Alya:''' Lois Lane was just in my class. World-renowned journalist Lois Lane was in my class. And I didn't say a word. I could've asked her so many questions. Tips, advice, anything.\\
'''Nino:''' It's okay, maybe you'll get another chance.\\
'''Alya:''' Marinette! She knows Lois Lane. I can't believe she never told me. And how could she recommend ''Aurore'' for an internship over me, I thought we were... ''(trails off in dawning horror)'' We're not friends. Lois Lane said she just wanted to meet Marinette's friends. I'm not her friend.



* ForcedToWatch: A key aspect of Marinette's revenge is how she has the vast majority of her contacts visit Francoise Dupont in order to meet her friends... and so that her ''former'' friends will have to watch as she hands all the opportunities ''they'' could have benefitted from to others.



* MaliciousMisnaming: J.J. Abrams makes a point of asking Marinette if her "filmmaker friend" is going to be joining them for their weekend plans, asking "What was his name? Nathan, Neo..." and trailing off. Marinette informs him that ''Claude'' will be joining them, while Nino watches in shock.



* WeUsedToBeFriends: Alya and the other classmates find themselves in this situation with Marinette. They used to be her friends, but they abandoned her, and now she won't draw on her celebrity connections to help them because she only does that for her friends.

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* WeUsedToBeFriends: Alya and the other classmates find themselves in this situation with Marinette. They used to be her friends, but they abandoned her, and now she won't draw on her celebrity connections to help them because she only does that for her friends.friends.

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* TheAce: Marinette's secret web of connections that incorporates a huge who's who of [[RealPersonFic real]] and [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover (out-of-universe) fictional]] celebrities, all of which are willing to do her favors or sing her praises on mass media turn her into this.
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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: All the girls in the class show signs of this, especially Juleka, who agrees with the rest of Kitty Section that Luka -- her own brother -- should be fired from Kitty Section as Lila said.

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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: All the girls in the class of Marinette's female classmates show signs of this, especially Juleka, who agrees with the rest of Kitty Section that Luka -- her own brother -- should be fired from Kitty Section as Lila said.
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* CainAndAbel: Juleka betrays Luka and helps force him out of Kitty Section, just because Lila says so.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Canon Marinette knows a few celebrities like Jagged Stone, but this story exaggerates her connections to really drive it home that her friends did something stupid by prioritizing Lilla's promises.
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It seems that Marinette is actually very close to an astonishing array of celebrities, professional athletes, and other rich and powerful people, and those people are happy to drop by the school and offer fantastic favors to Marinette's friends. Unfortunately, as Marinette is quick to explain to them, her classmates insist they ''aren't'' her friends anymore. It's a good thing that she has lots of other friends in other classes who are thrilled to be the recipients of those favors instead. And while her original class may be distraught at losing out on opportunities for internships with world-famous reporters and training from elite athletes, they know they can't complain.

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It seems that Marinette is actually very close to an astonishing array of celebrities, professional athletes, and other rich and powerful people, and those people are happy to drop by the school and offer fantastic favors to Marinette's friends. Unfortunately, as Marinette is quick to explain to them, her classmates insist they ''aren't'' her friends anymore. It's a good thing that she has lots of other friends in other classes who are thrilled to be the recipients of those favors instead. And while her original class may be distraught at losing out on opportunities for internships with world-famous reporters reporters, contracts with major record labels, and training from elite athletes, they know they can't complain.
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* FairWeatherFriends: Marinette's class proves to be these. They drop her, ostensibly because they believe Lila's claims of bullying, but really because they want to exploit Lila's alleged celebrity connections.

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* FairWeatherFriends: FairWeatherFriend: Marinette's class proves to be these. They drop her, ostensibly because they believe Lila's claims of bullying, but really because they want to exploit Lila's alleged celebrity connections.
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* FairWeatherFriends: Marinette's class proves to be these. They drop her, ostensibly because they believe Lila's claims of bullying, but really because they want to exploit Lila's alleged celebrity connections.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: The class abandons Marinette because they want Lila to exploit her connections on their behalf. Lila, of course, has no real connections... but Marinette does, and she lets it be known she's willing to exploit them on behalf of her real friends. It's just that those friends no longer include her classmates, who can only watch their dreams die as Marinette arranges for crucial internships, training, and other favors to go to people who ''didn't'' abandon her.



* RevengeFic: The story involves Marinette getting revenge on her fickle and fair-weather 'friends' in the class.

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* RevengeFic: The story involves Marinette getting revenge on her fickle and fair-weather 'friends' in the class.class.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: It's mentioned that the favors Marinette's friends give out would usually only go to people who are older and closer to actually going into the industries they're striving for, but the celebrities are so adoring of Marinette (and so angry on her behalf) that they're willing to bend the rules and give out the favors early.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Alya and the other classmates find themselves in this situation with Marinette. They used to be her friends, but they abandoned her, and now she won't draw on her celebrity connections to help them because she only does that for her friends.

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* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Marinette's contacts include both Marvel characters like ComicBook/IronMan and [=DC=] characters like Lois Lane and Cat Grant. They also include in-universe celebrities like Prince Ali and Jagged Stone.

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* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Marinette's contacts include both Marvel characters like ComicBook/IronMan and [=DC=] characters like [[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane Lane]] and Cat Grant. They also include in-universe celebrities like Prince Ali and Jagged Stone.



* {{Revenge}}: Marinette has hers by calling in a bevy of favors with celebrities who know and adore her so those celebrities publicly help Marinette's new friends, thus rubbing her classmates' noses in how they could have been the beneficiaries of that largesse but blew it by listening to Lila.

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* {{Revenge}}: Marinette has hers by calling in a bevy of favors with celebrities who know and adore her so those celebrities publicly help Marinette's new friends, thus rubbing her classmates' noses in how they could have been the beneficiaries of that largesse but blew it by listening to Lila.Lila.
* RevengeFic: The story involves Marinette getting revenge on her fickle and fair-weather 'friends' in the class.
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* AccusationFic: The fic serves as this, accusing the class of being cruel and failing to treat Marinette appropriately. When Marinette proceeds to abandon them and leaves them to watch as she showers favors upon her new friends, the story treats this as karmic justice.
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* RealPersonFic: Marinette's contacts also include real people like comic book writer Tom King, pro skaters Tony Hawk and Ryan Schekler, pro swimmer Michael Phelps, director J. J. Abrams, and singers Harry Styles, Selena Gomez, and Taylor Swift (the latter of which doesn't actually come to Marinette's school but instead tweets about how Marinette's outfits are the best, which of course makes Marinette one of the world's most in-demand designers).

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* RealPersonFic: Marinette's contacts also include real people like comic book writer Tom King, pro skaters Tony Hawk and Ryan Schekler, pro swimmer Michael Phelps, director J. J. Abrams, and singers Harry Styles, Selena Gomez, and Taylor Swift (the latter of which doesn't actually come to Marinette's school but instead tweets about how Marinette's outfits are the best, which of course makes Marinette one of the world's most in-demand designers).designers).
* {{Revenge}}: Marinette has hers by calling in a bevy of favors with celebrities who know and adore her so those celebrities publicly help Marinette's new friends, thus rubbing her classmates' noses in how they could have been the beneficiaries of that largesse but blew it by listening to Lila.
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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: All the girls in the class show signs of this, especially Juleka, who agrees with the rest of Kitty Section that Luka -- her own brother -- should be fired from Kitty Section as Lila said.

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* {{Crossover}}: Marinette's contacts include both Marvel characters like ComicBook/IronMan and [=DC=] characters like Lois Lane and Cat Grant. They also include in-universe celebrities like Prince Ali and Jagged Stone.


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* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Marinette's contacts include both Marvel characters like ComicBook/IronMan and [=DC=] characters like Lois Lane and Cat Grant. They also include in-universe celebrities like Prince Ali and Jagged Stone.
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''[[https://unmaskedagain.tumblr.com/post/189298560117/bridges-burned-mama-always-told-me-that-i-should Bridges Burned (Mama Always Told Me That I Should Play Nice. But She Never Met You]]'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' salt fic by [[https://unmaskedagain.tumblr.com Unmasked Again]].

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''[[https://unmaskedagain.tumblr.com/post/189298560117/bridges-burned-mama-always-told-me-that-i-should Bridges Burned (Mama Always Told Me That I Should Play Nice. But She Never Met You]]'' You)]]'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' salt fic by [[https://unmaskedagain.tumblr.com Unmasked Again]].
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''[[https://unmaskedagain.tumblr.com/post/189298560117/bridges-burned-mama-always-told-me-that-i-should Bridges Burned (Mama Always Told Me That I Should Play Nice. But She Never Met You]]'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' salt fic by [[https://unmaskedagain.tumblr.com Unmasked Again]].

After Lila Rossi convinces Marinette Dupain-Cheng's entire class that Marinette is a bully who deserves to be abandoned, they shun her just as Lila wants, and Alya even publicly announces that nobody in class considers themselves to be her friend anymore. But Marinette doesn't cry, or rage, or leave school. Instead, she just calmly acknowledges Alya's statement as if it were of no importance whatsoever.

And then she starts making some calls.

It seems that Marinette is actually very close to an astonishing array of celebrities, professional athletes, and other rich and powerful people, and those people are happy to drop by the school and offer fantastic favors to Marinette's friends. Unfortunately, as Marinette is quick to explain to them, her classmates insist they ''aren't'' her friends anymore. It's a good thing that she has lots of other friends in other classes who are thrilled to be the recipients of those favors instead. And while her original class may be distraught at losing out on opportunities for internships with world-famous reporters and training from elite athletes, they know they can't complain.

After all, they were the ones who said they didn't want to be friends anymore.

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* AlwaysNeedWhatYouGaveUp: The class sacrificed Marinette's friendship to suck up to Lila. Then it turns out they really needed Marinette's friendship because she has actual connections which she's willing to use to bolster her true friends, while Lila just has a pile of lies.
* CelebrityLie: Lila tells a bunch of these to placate the class, repeatedly insisting that she knows celebrities who are even more powerful and grant better favors than the ones Marinette knows. The class goes along with this, until Jagged finally reveals the truth.
* {{Crossover}}: Marinette's contacts include both Marvel characters like ComicBook/IronMan and [=DC=] characters like Lois Lane and Cat Grant. They also include in-universe celebrities like Prince Ali and Jagged Stone.
* DefiantToTheEnd: A non-lethal example. Even as it becomes clear the class completely screwed up by picking Lila over Marinette, they don't come crawling back to Marinette in the hopes of taking advantage of her connections, instead choosing to remain loyal to Lila and opposed to the bullying they believe Marinette committed. This changes at the end after Jagged Stone reveals Lila was lying all along.
* RealPersonFic: Marinette's contacts also include real people like comic book writer Tom King, pro skaters Tony Hawk and Ryan Schekler, pro swimmer Michael Phelps, director J. J. Abrams, and singers Harry Styles, Selena Gomez, and Taylor Swift (the latter of which doesn't actually come to Marinette's school but instead tweets about how Marinette's outfits are the best, which of course makes Marinette one of the world's most in-demand designers).

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